Finally, in the highest forms, grades 10 through 12, Charlotte Mason allowed that students do need some definite instruction and composition.

We'll be sharing what this looks like on the podcast today.

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the form where some definite teaching in composition. She said in the art of composition is

advisable, but not too much, lest the young scholars be saddled with a stilted style,

which may encumber them for life. It's pretty severe

words. Yeah. So before we talk about what this definite teaching looks like, Nicole, would you tell

us what kinds of writing students in forms five and six to? Yeah, these are the years for honing skills

and broadening application without abandoning the

natural development that has brought them this far. So assignments might include essays on

significant questions of the day or ideas from the terms work. Presi, which is a concise,

accurate summary of a longer piece. Time leaders is what Charter

the Mason called these. These are opinion pieces modeled on the editorial pages of the times.

They could write those. Speaches for delivery on a particular occasion or in defense of a position.

Occasionally, they could write debates, or maybe that's like the intro for the debate because the debate's more fluid, right?

And then still narrative verse and ballads, often tied to current events. I loved your point

of the Light Brigade in the last episode. That just really

is an inspiring idea to me, I guess. And then now, you know, they started letters in form two,

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